What Did They Use In The Olden Days?

That would be ages ago when there was no toothpaste or toothbrush. My grandparents would occasionally use Neem sticks to brush their teeth. It's natural and much more effective than modern toothpaste and toothbrush. They also used baking soda and salt once in a week

I wish I had known more about what my grandparents were up to at the time. They encounter even greater challenges in life as a result of their past experiences. During WWII, they were under Japanese rule and faced numerous obstacles. People's lives were, in general, very different from how I grew up and viewed life.

Good question. Never really knew anything about my great-grandparents, particularly on my father's side.

People were then and are now, resourceful. It is actually fun sometimes to look at old pictures of gadgets and tools that have been used through the ages. Some of it is, of course, even barbaric. lol

I love history. I've done a lot of research on different topics, to me the Pioneer times in America prove that people can do a lot of things with very little. The cooking then just fascinated me, and I have tried to re-create some dishes they used to fix, when I find a written recipe for something I think we would eat. Remember, nothing was ready-made then. If they had canned goods, they were home canned. They dried a lot of foods and built root cellars. Their breads were often salt-rising bread, sourdough, or corn bread. Every housewife made biscuits nearly every day, they dried wild fruits for the winter, they hunted for much of their meats and dried that, too. They also used a lot of salt as a preservative, made their own cheeses and butter. Nothing went to waste. Today's adults think cooking is so hard and time consuming. I would love to see some of them have to cook everything from scratch, from very basic, simple ingredients. They made their own soap. There were no loaves of bread at the store, or cartons of milk, or sodas. Usually, the housewife not only did all of what I mentioned, she also sewed, by hand, every stitch of clothing needed by her family. Clothing was washed by hand and scrubbed on a board. The water had to be heated on a wood stove, or in a kettle in the fireplace, they hung out to dry. They made diapers, knitted socks and winter mittens, made coats and hats. Some even cobbled their own footwear for their families. They were never idle. In other words, if they wanted or needed something, they had to make it themselves, or do without.

In my grandmother era, she used grass to brushed her teeth

What was obvious to me was that they used fire to light up the house and used their fingers to eat something. They lived a longer life as they moved a lot.

Have you ever seen the American TV series The Beverly Hillbillies? Well, if so that's what my great grandparents probably did.

Everything happened in the past can be learned something.

According to my grandfather, they used the salt or the young guava fruit to brush their teeth.

My grandmother brushed her teeth with baking soda.

Well, the rich in Tudor era would brush their teeth with a sugar paste Soap was developed as far back as 2800 BC (3461 years ago) by babylonians

In the olden days, according to what we learn in school, people use everything that was available in nature.

I heard that my grandma used salt to clean her teeth.